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How relevant is Win32 programming to modern professionals?

Asked 2009-02-03T08:50:13.113
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As a big fan of Charles Petzold's books Code and The Annotated Turing I came across his book Programming Windows which teaches Win32 programming in C. I am a freshman computer science student who learned C first, but I use C# and .NET for Windows programming now, so I was wondering if Win32 is still relevant to professional Windows programs. Would it be worth it to me, as a student who wants to program Windows applications, to learn the Win32 API to the depth that the book covers?

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Definitely learn the basics as AlexDrenea mentions. Whilst .NET shields you from a lot of Win32 API Calls. Win32 API is so enormous you're bound to run into situations where .NET hasn't wrapped it for you.

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answered 2009-02-03T09:05:00.900

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